After going a bit of research for Dusseldorf, I found Classic Remise Dusseldorf, which holds a lot of cars for people who own too many, and cars on display, waiting to be sold. Some interesting and unique specimens :)
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2024-07-17 01:01
in Cars, Flying, Germany, Ncars, Nflying
The Sinsheim and Speyer Tecknik Museums south of Frankfurt were on my todo list for a while and I finally got the chance to go. The car and plane collections are good, plus plenty of other tech stuff, but the highlight is of course the only Tupolev 144 (aka Concordeski since it was designed and built with stolen blueprints of the concorde) on the western side. For extra bonus points, it's literally in front of a concorde so you can compare and contrast, doesn't get better than that.
Concorde:
before glass cockpits
The TU-144 looked similar, outside of its canard in the front:
that plane did not manage to fly there, had to go by boat and truck
Under the roof, big collection of cars and other cool stuff:
About 30mn away is the other museum Speyer Tecknik Museum:
Another highlight was the Russian Buran space shuttle prototype, another thing the Russians tried to build from stolen plans (obviously the TU 144 failed, and the buran space shuttle never made it to space):